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So, my partner had the option of either going home directly after surgery or spending the night in the hospital. The hospital staff wanted her to go home. She

So, my partner had the option of either going home directly after surgery or spending the night in the hospital. The hospital staff wanted her to go home. She wanted to stay. (She has issues with post-surgical pain.) If the hospital staff had sent her home, she would not be woken every two hours. The medical staff were fine with that. It would have been perfectly reasonable for them to let her sleep; it would have been no more risk than they were advocating for. Clearly it was optional.

pc86 8y ago
> Clearly it was optional. Unless there was some regulatory, legal, or hospital requirement that she receive a certain standard of care. They may have been fine with her sleeping through the night at home, but if she's in the hospital they need to take care of her. It would not be an easy sell in a courtroom to explain that while you checked everyone except her every 3 hours, you let her sleep through the night and there was an issue that cost her life. Not that the physicians and nurses should have been taking that into account but the folks crafting the regulations or hospital policy very well may have.
- jyounker 8y ago
  Clearly there was an organizational reason, but those reasons had nothing to do with what she actually needed according to her physicians, which was rest and painkillers. What you've just said supports the article's argument that hospitals are designed to prevent people from sleeping.